Joanne Eff, teacher in Stony Brook, dies
Joanne "Jody" Eff, a Centerport native, was always more than two hours early for school. She used to wait in the parking lot of W.S. Mount Elementary School in Stony Brook, where she was a teacher for...
View ArticleSwim, film star Esther Williams dies at 91
Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 91.
View ArticleTheoretical physicist Gerald E. Brown, 86
Theoretical physicist Gerald E. Brown already was a renowned scientist at Princeton University when the legendary C.N. Yang, a Nobel Prize winner working to build the physics department at Stony Brook...
View ArticleNovelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85
LONDON -- Tom Sharpe was aptly named, a writer who turned a razor-edged eye for absurdity on everything from the racism of apartheid to the squabbles of academia.
View ArticleDr. Dean Brooks, had role in 'Cuckoo's Nest'
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Dr. Dean Brooks, the psychiatrist who opened the Oregon State Hospital's doors to filming of the 1975 Academy Award-winning movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has died.
View ArticleRichard Doty, coin and money expert, dies at 71
WASHINGTON -- Richard Doty, a scholar of money who helped humanize coins and currency by showing how the objects might reflect the culture, values and history of a society, died June 2 in Falls Church,...
View ArticleEx-Gov. Paul Cellucci of Massachusetts dies
BOSTON -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci has died of complications from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 65.
View ArticleEast German artist Willi Sitte dies at 92
BERLIN -- Willi Sitte, one of East Germany's most eminent artists and a key representative of Communism's preferred socialist realism painting style, has died at 92.
View ArticleWriter Iain Banks dies at 59
LONDON -- Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said Sunday. He was 59.
View ArticleOrchestra conductor Bruno Bartoletti dies
ROME -- Bruno Bartoletti, an orchestra conductor who was associated with the Lyric Opera of Chicago for a half-century, and who championed modern opera as well as classic works, died Sunday in his...
View ArticleThomas Roberts, who championed lighthouse, dies
On a dare from his wife, Thomas F. Roberts III of Bay Shore in 1979 formed a nonprofit group with the goal of saving the Fire Island Lighthouse from demolition. The group pulled it off, family and...
View ArticleBayport-Blue Point educator, coach Fred Coverdale 76, dies
When Fred Coverdale first interviewed for a job in the Bayport-Blue Point school district in 1961, he was hired over the phone. When he showed up for his first day of work as the school district's...
View ArticleChampion horse trainer Hency Cecil dies
LONDON -- Henry Cecil, who trained unbeaten superstar Frankel and was one of British horse racing's greatest trainers in a career spanning nearly half a century, died Tuesday after a long battle with...
View ArticleHambuger Hamlet founder Harry Lewis dies
LOS ANGELES -- As an actor, Harry Lewis took second billing to the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, most notably in the 1948 film noir "Key Largo." But he found his own starring role as...
View ArticleE.F. Hutton exec William Clayton dies
William Clayton, an E.F. Hutton & Co. executive and board member who oversaw the brokerage's advertising campaigns, including "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen," has died. He was 83.
View ArticleEconomist, author Robert W. Fogel dies at 86
CHICAGO -- Robert W. Fogel, a University of Chicago economist whose study of the economics of slavery sparked a furious debate in academia and later helped garner him a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 86.
View ArticleGolf champ Miller Barber dies at 82
Miller Barber, the unique-swinging golfer who made the most combined starts on the PGA and Champions tours, has died. He was 82.
View ArticleFrances Reder, helped launch East Meadow chamber, dies at 100
Rosemary Reder, skimming newspaper clippings chronicling her mother's birthday celebration in February, recalled how she "sparkled like a queen" in a gold dress.
View ArticleMicrobiologist McHarrel Zachuel Thomas, 73
McHarrel Zachuel Thomas, 73, a former supervising microbiologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, died from pulmonary hypertension at his home in Lakewood, Colo., on May 10.
View ArticleThe Rev. DuBois "Obe" Tangier Smith, descendant of Smithtown's founder, dies
The Rev. DuBois "Obe" Tangier Smith was the last of the ninth-generation Smith family of Smithtown, descended from Richard Bull Smith, who founded the town and, according to legend, rode a bull as he...
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